Following in the tradition of Phoenix Phenom and Bryan Pringle — unsigned artists who claim the Black Eyed Peas lifted chunks of their music for the hits “Boom Boom Pow†and “I Gotta Feeling,†respectively — is a new lawsuit from George Clinton. This one’s more clear-cut: The Black Eyed Peas never cleared a sample of “(Not Just) Knee Deep†(the track has been sampled a bunch, but is probably best known for De La Soul’s “Me, Myself, and Iâ€) that was used in a remix of their song “Shut Up.†Will.I.Am, don’t even try to blame this on apl.de.ap. [THR, Esq./HR]